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The beauty is that most people can be fat lazy slobs without affecting anything. Take a look at Wall-E, society was functioning perfectly well despite everyone being comically obese.
Yup! <3 Wall-E.
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Well I suppose if there was enough automation and smart enough AI, people could live maintenance-free like they did. But currently, that technology doesn't exist yet, or is to expensive to implement on a global scale.
I agree, automation isn't at a level it should be at, but it'll get there, and it is getting there fast. It's well within our reach... I'll get back to this after I finish writing a paper on it.
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And on the contrary, the current "motivation" system is restrictive-- it is what causes people to be lazy. Have you ever seen a lazy toddler? Or five year old? It's only after we hammer them through some industrialized medieval education that they show laziness. We force all of their creativity and fun out of them in the name of profit. You go to work, you come home, you're bloody exhausted because you hate your repetitive job. Are you going to go work on some project? Fuck no, you're going to sit on the couch and watch TV with a beer.
It is clearly mentioned that there would be an educational center in each city-hub (for lack of a better word). But the details of which ... I'm not entirely certain of. I would definitely find them more... hands-on and fit for learning than our current system. Possibly the entire system would be computerized, and classrooms completely done away with. Students would probably be on a wok at your own pace type of thing. Human tutors would probably be available for assistance.
This is all speculation, and the idea needs fleshed out. But it isn't anything that cannot be solved with the application of science and engineering (such as psychology).
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Look at the liberal arts mostly. Artists and musicians do what they do because they really love it-- not for bloody profit. And architects could spend their time actually designing cool buildings that they want to design instead of some bloody stairwell.
That is a big problem, I've been wondering how to do this as well. Though I am no systems engineer. I am sure the expertise and people exist to make it a reality, but hey. Then again, it is a technical problem.
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